Prime Minister Scott Morrison says at Thursday's National Cabinet meeting a new definition of a close contact will be considered.
Mr Morrison said this will also include a consideration of "which tests are used in what circumstances and how they're provided".
"The recommended definition, which is being considered by the medical expert panel and will be tomorrow presented as we asked last week to the National Cabinet by the chief medical officer, is a definition of a close contact which is a household contact or a household-like, another accommodation-type setting, of a confirmed case only," he said during a media conference on Wednesday.
"If I went down to a restaurant down the road and I happened to pop in and get some takeaway and there was a case there, I would not be a close contact, I would not then have to isolate for the arrangements sitting under a close contact."
He said this new definition would allow the country to keep moving and for Australians to "get on with their lives."
